Politics likely at play with Kurdistan in need of cash from fields under federal control and Baghdad exerting leverage in dispute over oil rights.
The chief of Iraq’s lynchpin financial institution details the measures being used to prop up Iraq’s budget with its currency reserves.
Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.
Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.
Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.
Dueling statements by Iraqi PM Abadi and the KRG highlight the hard financial and political realities preventing oil and revenue cooperation.
Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.
The town of Sulaiman Bek epitomizes a major challenge facing Iraq: IS has been ousted, but ethno-sectarian politics are preventing displaced civilians from returning.
Facing huge deficits and an economic crisis, Kurdistan’s government has little choice but to cut wages and risk further public unrest.
$10 million payment consolidates Kirkuk’s oil within the Kurdistan region’s exports, delivering cash to the province while shoring up a critical ingredient of the KRG’s oil mix.
